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Re: Finally extracted our honey

Originally Posted by cerezha

Hi Ace
Very nice extractor in action! My concern regarding your design is how easy to clean it after use? My understanding is that you have to remove the motor, right? Also, do you use any bearings on top and bottom? If so, how you isolate them from honey and honey from grease? Sergey

The bottom bearing are the (2) motor bearings. Have you ever seen or heard of oil or grease drip down from a ceiling fan? Not likely in twenty years of operation. The top bearings are cabinet slide ball bearings (4). They have a plastic race and it is very unlikely that oil or grease will end up in the honey. The wooden support arms are painted white. Do you see anything coming from the bearings?

Re: Finally extracted our honey

But I imagine there could be some sort of contamination to the honey since technically a ceiling fan motor is not food grade? And like what was asked, just how do you break down your extractor for cleaning, and out of curiosity, do you break down the fan motor to clean honey/wax and what ever else particles out of it?

Re: Finally extracted our honey

Originally Posted by BeeGhost

But I imagine there could be some sort of contamination to the honey since technically a ceiling fan motor is not food grade?

Don't make me laugh BeeGhost. Are your frames food grade. Is anything in your hives food grade. Do you sterilize your honey after processing. Food grade is a joke for honey.
I don't break down the motor. I wipe the slinger disc and the brass mount down with a wet cloth.

Re: Finally extracted our honey

Originally Posted by BeeCurious

You didn't care for the spline coupling idea? The drain? A seal?

Look at the design of a ceiling fan motor and then draw me a picture how you would use a spline coupling. I have no interest in doing anything different than I have done. If someone else wants to follow your lead they can have at it.

Re: Finally extracted our honey

I'm sorry Acebird, but you said food grade is a joke............yet you bashed my home made extractor because you said it would contaminate my honey? Just trying to clarify things as I believe you are as confused as I am with what your beliefs are?

So you don't clean the fan motor which contains last years extractions such as comb, propolis, insect parts and honey which has been fermenting and will be included in this years honey extraction?

Re: Finally extracted our honey

Because I upload my photos to Photobucket and full resolution. If I insert them in the post as I did initially, Barry sends me nasty grams (forum rules). The point of photos is so you can see so why limit the resolution that is already uploaded and hosted on the internet?

Re: Finally extracted our honey

I upload my photos to photobucket as well, then post them on here, haven't had a problem yet? The higher the resolution the more wasted space it takes up on this site, hence the reason for smaller pictures, and this and all other sites need the bandwidth for useful information, not high def pictures. I didn't post high resolution of my extractor because I didn't feel the need to polish a turd, the pictures just showed what I built, plain and simple.

Re: Finally extracted our honey

Originally Posted by BeeCurious

Do you think the high resolution is necessary for snapshots?

There are those that are looking for fly crap in pepper. I like to let them have their fun.
The link takes up less band width then even a thumbnail so you could say I am more considerate on bandwidth than those that embed photos.

Re: Finally extracted our honey

I don't worry about my posts being interesting after the first page. They usually get trashed by the same few people.
Lauri probably has as much a hobby in photography and wood working as she does with bees. She should do as she pleases if Barry is OK with it.

Last edited by Acebird; 12-18-2012 at 09:45 AM.
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